Never say never. After King Richard‘s Oscars win was overshadowed by Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, Serena Williams revealed that she would be interested in more onscreen stories about her family.
29.03.2022 - 22:09 / perezhilton.com
The slap of the century was unpacked by late night hosts on Monday night, and each comedian reacted pretty much exactly the way we’d expect them to.
As the world was still trying to process Will Smith striking Chris Rock across the face on stage at the 2022 Oscars, each host took a different approach on how to cover it. Jimmy Kimmel opted for a more direct style, recapping the entire ordeal on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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Kimmel kept it light as he sprinkled in jabs toward Will, like joking that the King Richard star might be waiting for the Academy in the parking lot if he doesn’t get invited back to the ceremony.
Stephen Colbert wasn’t afraid to go even harder on The Late Show, making digs at not just Will, but his movies, calling those films the worst thing the actor’s done aside from the slap. Colbert also took aim at Oscars producers for letting the star give a long acceptance speech without consequence.
On Late Night, Seth Meyers let one of his writers, Amber Ruffin, take the wheel — honestly pretty smart (also, she’s GREAT). Amber detailed the terror of watching the s**tshow unfold in a poetic, theatrical monologue that should be its own one-woman show.
James Corden took a very James Corden-y approach to tackling the event: he did it in song!
The Late Late Show host analyzed the debacle with a spin on We Don’t Talk About Bruno, the hit song from Disney’s Encanto, titled We Don’t Talk About Jada — referencing the GI Jane 2 joke Rock made at the expense of Jada Pinkett Smith, which of course set the whole thing off.
And then there was the amiable Jimmy Fallon, who never wants to get his hands too dirty when it comes to this
Never say never. After King Richard‘s Oscars win was overshadowed by Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, Serena Williams revealed that she would be interested in more onscreen stories about her family.
Gilbert Gottfried showed support for Chris Rock in his final days. Gottfried, one of the most recognizable voices in show business, died after a long illness on Tuesday. He was 67.
Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis has become the latest star to respond to Will Smith’s viral slap of Chris Rock at last month’s Oscars.Last month, Smith struck the comedian on-stage during the Academy Awards ceremony following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Following numerous apologies over the incident, Smith resigned from the Academy and described his actions as “shocking, painful, and inexcusable”.Asked by Howard Stern what he thought of the incident, Kiedis originally replied that “too much has been said already.”The band’s guitarist John Frusciante then stepped in, saying: “We love Chris Rock and I’ll stand forward and say he should not have been slapped.” Rock inducted the band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.Kiedis then did give his take though, telling the host: “I love comedy.
slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.Bay, who directed Smith in “Bad Boys” and “Bad Boys II,” was not watching the 2022 Oscars live, but was flooded with texts about the incident.“I wasn’t watching. I saw it. First of all, it’s wrong to begin with,” Bay told Yahoo! Entertainment.“I don’t really care.
Will Smith following his altercation with Chris Rock at this year’s Oscars.During the ceremony on March 27, Rock made a “joke” on stage about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, referring to her as “G.I. Jane” because of her shaven head.
asked Fox News host Jesse Watters Friday evening. “Have you ever thought about that?”After slapping Rock during the show, Smith was allowed to remain at the ceremony, receive an Oscar for Best Actor and even earned a standing ovation from the crowd when he accepted it.Watters’ question came near the end of a five-minute interview.As Gibson laughed, a handler for the star broke in to say the interview was over.“Um, thank you, Jesse.
Denzel Washington was one of the first people to talk with Will Smith after his Oscars slap and before his Best Actor award.
A$AP Rocky (aka Rakim Mayers) has weighed in on the row between Chris Rock and Will Smith at this year’s Oscars ceremony, where after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, being bald, Smith walked up to the stage and slapped Rock.The joke in question saw Rock – midway through a monologue he gave in presenting the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature – point to Jada (who has long been vocal about her struggles with alopecia) and quip: “G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see it!” Smith later said in a statement, in which he also formally apologised to Rock, that the joke “was too much for me to bear”.In a forthcoming episode of the Drink Champs podcast, Mayers chimed in to offer the theory that Smith’s assault on Rock was the result of “some built-up shit that probably wasn’t really targeted at Chris Rock”, adding that “it just seemed like more than a G.I.
Questlove has urged fans to “stop talking about” the Oscars incident involving Will Smith and Chris Rock.The filmmaker, real name Ahmir “Questlove Thompson” won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for his debut Summer of Soul just after the altercation between Smith and Rock onstage.Today, Questlove took to social media alluding to the incident, simply writing on Twitter: “Can we FINNNNNNNALY stop talking about it?”Can we FINNNNNNNALY stop talking about it?— Questo (@questlove) April 1, 2022Earlier this week, he also revealed he didn’t see the viral moment in person because he was meditating.He told Jimmy Fallon: “They tell you ahead of time, this is your category, and so, in that moment, you’re either going to be full of anxiety or, for me, I’ve been like meditating for the past couple of years.“And when the commercial break happened, I was in my ‘Mmmm.’ So when I opened my eyes, I didn’t realise. ‘Why is everyone so quiet?’”Questlove continued: “As I’m walking to the stage, I’m kind of putting two and two together, and I realise that was a real moment like maybe three seconds before I spoke words.
Actor Daniel Radcliffe has been heaped with praise after choosing to swerve a question about Will Smith and Chris Rock’s Oscars clash. During an appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain to promote his new film The Lost City, host Susanna Reid asked Daniel what he made of Will hitting comedian Chris Rock following a remark about Will’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith.
Chris Rock seems to be keeping it positive in spite of what happened at the Oscars. He was spotted in his car heading out of his comedy gig at the Wilbur Theater in Boston. The Everybody Hates Chris star was all smiles after what seemed to be a successful show.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWill Packer, the producer of this year’s Oscars telecast on ABC, is expected to speak about the controversy at the event that involved actor Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock, in an appearance on Friday morning’s broadcast of “Good Morning America,” according to two people familiar with the matter.The interview may be one of the first public eyewitness accounts from one of the executives in charge of the Oscars broadcast.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has launched a formal review following Smith’s assault on Rock at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony. Conflicting accounts have emerged, with the Academy claiming it asked Smith to leave Sunday’s Oscars ceremony after hitting Rock, who had made a joke about the appearance of Jada Pinkett Smith.
Comedian Chris Rock has been spotted looking serious and deep in thought as he continues to "process" getting slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars on Sunday night. The 57 year old funnyman had made a G I Jane joke about the Seven Pounds actor's wife Jada Pinkett Smith, 50. Jada suffers from the autoimmune disease alopecia and recently decided to shave her head to take control of the hair loss.
Jada Pinkett Smith's reaction to the Oscars drama is being seen from a different angle.
Chris Rock has spoken out for the first time since Will Smith slapped him across the face at the 2022 Oscars.The 53 year old I Am Legend actor was left offended when the comedian made a quip about his 50 year old wife Jada's shaved head. He reacted by walking on stage and slapping Chris before returning to his seat to warn the 57 year old: "Keep my wife's name out of your f****** mouth." Chris has since broken his silence as he appeared teary in Boston for his comedy performance on Wednesday 30 March. Greeted with two standing ovations, Chris got emotional and said: "Let me be all misty and s**t".
Back to business! Chris Rock took the stage for the first time since his 2022 Oscars drama with Will Smith — and briefly spoke about the altercation.
Will Smith and Chris Rock incident at the Oscars.The comedian was hosting the event alongside Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes this year, and was the first co-host to be tasked with responding to the event as it happened.“Still triggered and traumatised,” Schumer has now written on Instagram, several days after the ceremony. “I love my friend [Chris Rock] and believe he handled it like a pro. Stayed up there and gave an Oscar to his friend [Questlove] and the whole thing was so disturbing.“So much pain in [Will Smith], anyway I’m still in shock and stunned and sad.
most controversial night in Oscars history. The 94th Academy Awards were, of course, marred by Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock in the face after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head. Kimmel, whose show runs on ABC, the same network that carries the Oscars, began by showing the clip of Smith walking up on stage and striking Rock in front of the audience.
Jada Pinkett Smith is speaking out.